Jeremy Julian
Jeremy Julian
How do you know when you and your business are ready for app? It’s a hard question to ask and frankly, no one has the answer as to when is the best time. However, when it comes to building an app, there are many factors to consider and questions to ask. Today, we are covering the factors you need to investigate when considering to create an app. Are you ready? First and foremost, you have to ask yourself, is your business ready for an app? Yes, there is an app for everything nowadays, but is it right for you and your customers? You have to be honest yourself and your priorities. You need to investigate and see if a mobile app is inContinue Reading …
Today, we are continuing from last week’s article, Is the $15 per Hour Wage Hike a Death Blow to Your Restaurant? For the past few weeks, we have been discussing our opinions, possible benefits, shortcomings and problems of the new $15 minimum wage law but they, in fact, are just speculation. We cannot tell the future – and frankly, no one knows what will happen. Economists, both conservative and liberal, have speculated that this could either greatly benefit or destroy California’s economy and growth factors for smaller, private and family-owned restaurants. Instead of making more speculations, we want to give you facts and real consequences of a $15 minimum wage. Below are excerpts from an article written by Grant Chen, a restaurant owner inContinue Reading …
California’s restaurants are going to be ground zero for the impact of the new minimum wage law. The retail and food industries alone, employ nearly a third of all workers who will get a raise from the new law. Of the 5.6 million workers who are expected to earn more under the law, about 1.7 million of them are employed in retail or food services. Restaurants are and have been a major driver of job growth and because they spend a relatively large share of their operating expenses on labor, restaurants will feel the effect of rising pay the most. When the new minimum wage law was first proposed, The National Restaurant Association came out and opposed the wage hike, stating that “Profit marginsContinue Reading …
Picking up where we left off last week, we will be looking into the consequences and resulting effects that could come from the new minimum wage law. Last week, we looked into the facts and benefits of the new $15 minimum wage law. Click on the link to catch up on our previous article. Research that has been completed over the past several decades, suggests raising the minimum wage has little negative impact on overall employment. Problem is, most past wage hikes have been relatively modest, and there is no data to confidently predict what might happen following the kinds of increases now planned for the state California. California is increasing it’s minimum wage from $10 to $15. That is a 50% jump. Although these wouldContinue Reading …
In the restaurant world, we never had a lot of down time to keep abreast of all the different technology advances, leadership seminars, know-how lessons, business best practice articles, or the like. As the Restaurant Technology Guys, however, we’re here to help cut out some of the noise of all the podcasts that are out there to make you a lean, mean, restaurant-business machine. Why Podcasts? We love podcasts because of how flexible they are. You can listen to them in just about any setting. Sitting in traffic? Switch on a podcast and turn your commute into a free classroom session. Walking the dog alone? Unless you’re one of those people that talk to their dog and think it’s talking back, you’re going to haveContinue Reading …
California is the site of a bold economic experiment and her businesses and citizens are the guinea pigs. Last month, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed in to law, the minimum wage increase from $10 to $15 by year 2022. And we, the Restaurant Technology Guys, are here to talk you through it. We are going to break down all this information into four separate articles: the facts and benefits, possible disruptions and consequences, how the wage increase will affect restaurants and how the increase will affect customers. Here’s what you should know: California’s minimum wage is now $10. Unions say that is less than $21,000 a year for a full-time worker. Last year, the Los Angeles city council voted to increase its minimum wageContinue Reading …
